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people often defend carcanos and mosin nagants as if they were the first bolt actions ever made... no, they weren't even the first that were mass produced for military.[/QUOTE]
You are so very correct on that. But they neither the mosin nor the carcano was. Really upgraded so they are both outdated compared to the mauser and other successful designs. Actually i belive the carcano was downgraded due to they stopped useing gain twist rifleing in the 91/38 i belive(91/24 i belive was the cut down 1891. Please correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while since I've read up on them) and the mosin i dont think were changed aside from length. So yea they were both 1891 rifles fighting in 1940s war. Face it would you want a gun from 1960s fighting in against the world powers of today?
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